Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

[CaT]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> CaT writes:
>  > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn 
>  > 1
>  > 
>  > and I can contact hotmail just fine.
>  ...
>  > where should I go to on hotmail to see it fail?
> 
> Try telnetting to port 25 on one of their
> "*.hotmail.com" MX records.

Boom. Bingo:

gozer:~# telnet mc6.law5.hotmail.com 25
Trying 216.33.238.136...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Big baddaboom :)

And it answers my question of wether or not it does ECN for non-ECN
boxes behind the firewall:

[11:29:31] root@theirongiant:/root>> telnet mc6.law5.hotmail.com 25
Trying 216.33.238.136...
Connected to mc6.law5.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-HotMail (NO UCE) ESMTP server ready at Thu Jan 25 17:06:07 2001 
220 ESMTP spoken here
554 Transaction failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
[12:06:37] root@theirongiant:/root>> uname -a
Linux theirongiant 2.2.19pre7 #3 Tue Jan 16 18:07:56 EST 2001 i686 unknown

Thanks for that. :) I'll be leaving ECN turned on on the box regardless
I think.

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